THE DARK IS RISING

This night will be bad and tomorrow will be beyond imagining. It s Midwinter s Eve, the day before Will s eleventh birthday. But there is an atmosphere of fear in the familiar countryside around him. This will be a birthday like no other. Will discovers that he has the power of the Old Ones, and that he must embark on a quest to vanquish the terrifyingly evil magic of the Dark. The second novel in Susan Cooper s highly acclaimed Dark is Rising sequence.